Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Serbia and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Alton Ellis to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Ash Ra Tempel. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Isaac Hayes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mary Jane Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlback,
Severed Heads,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Derrick Morgan,
Donald Byrd,
Malaria!,
Jimmy McGriff,
Cybotron,
X-Ray Spex,
Echospace,
The Stooges,
Donny Hathaway,
Wire,
Barclay James Harvest,
Altered Images,
Das Ding,
PIL,
Robert Görl,
Gabor Szabo,
U.S. Maple,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Smoke,
The Velvet Underground,
Avey Tare,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Electric Prunes,
The Fortunes,
Warsaw,
Deadbeat,
John Foxx,
The Tremeloes,
Thompson Twins,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sparks,
Sugar Minott,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Birthday Party,
the Germs,
Sandy B,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Flash Fearless,
June Days,
Gregory Isaacs,
The New Christs,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Wolf Eyes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
the Human League,
Urselle,
Little Man,
Fat Boys,
Guru Guru,
Sonic Youth,
Tropical Tobacco,
Eve St. Jones,
Wasted Youth,
Whodini,
R.M.O.,
Basic Channel,
Erykah Badu,
Pagans, Pagans, Pagans, Pagans.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.